1. balk, baulk -- (the area on a billiard table behind the balkline; "a player with ball in hand must play from the balk")
2. hindrance, hinderance, deterrent, impediment, balk, baulk, check, handicap -- (something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress)
3. rafter, balk, baulk -- (one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof)
4. balk -- (an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base)

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balk others they do not balk me. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

No balk retarding, no anchor anchoring, on no rock striking. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

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If you groan such groans you might balk the government cannon. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

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Nor will I allow you to balk me any more with what I was calling life. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

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At the very moment when she would have seized her prey, the hare moved and darted along the balk between the winter rye and the stubble. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

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Again Erza and Milka were abreast, running like a pair of carriage horses, and began to overtake the hare, but it was easier for the hare to run on the balk and the borzois did not overtake him so quickly. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

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But we wantonly balk the artist's own purpose, and discredit his labour, when we keep before his picture the screen of dust and cobwebs which, for the English people in these days, the crude forms of the infant language have practically become. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

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The expression of the face balks account. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

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The love of the body of man or woman balks account, the body itsel. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman